IBM 4690 OS Installation or a lack of

[Obehappy22]

Is it possible to make install disks under the os some where?


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Obehappy22 (TechnicalUser) Jul 24, 2004
HELP/..... OK Heres my delima. I purchased a store system from a large grocery chain that went under in chicago, il running the IBM 4690 os On an old out dated IBM 486. With 4683 Terminals. A good friend who used to live here in chicago and at one time was a programmer for a POS company changed my terminals to 4694 terminals (is: bring us to earthernet and away from token ring). Heres the issue. This store system now runs my small wireless chain 2 stores 2 registers per store no major setup. When i bought the system it came with a CD labeld ibm 4690 ver 1 rel 3 image.
and 3 floppys labled Supplemental pos. and guess what i did. LOST THE CD. rather it was lost durin g a remodel to one of our stores. The 486 running the system we have is slow out date and dying. I want to upgrade the system to a dell pIII 455 mhz system. BUT I DONT HAVE THE CD. i contacted ibm they told me i would have to purchase a global support contract and whoooo the price tag on that. can any one tell me is it possible to copy the HDD using some drive image program and get the os to load on a new machine or any where to get a copy of the install disks with out donating a arm or an eye ball.???? Any help any one can offer would be more appericated than you could possibly know......

Steve. TFN Wireless

 

[DTSMAN]

Would it be possible to slave the old HDD into the new machine and run the software from the slaved drive?

 

[radiuspos]

Without the supplemental disks - you could perform a simple 'disk backup' and then apply the disk image to the new controller. Booting the old machine under DOS and running PKZIP in combination with a parallel Iomega Zip drive works great for this. Before you boot to DOS – ensure that you save off the file attributes with the ADXCSU1L tool. With the supplemental disks you can use the IBM procedure to make an image of an active drive with the LanDisk rebuild tool (ADXNSL0L).

The Dell machine is not ‘certified’ to run IBM 4690 OS. You may be able to get it to work – but it is not tested or proven in that environment. If you do go this route, you must take the NVRam card that is in the OLD controller with you to the new controller. The OS requires that this card be present to boot and operate the system. If this card is not the same type or not supported under the new machine you would have to purchase a newer NVRam card that may be compatible with whatever machine that you move to.